Criticism Quotes - Page 24

• In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Cities, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2404, Manonmani Publishers

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

  Judith Crist

  Real, Mean, Glimpse

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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• I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

  Michael Scheuer

  Leadership, Senior, Thinking

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• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Real, Cinema

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Military, Japan, Years

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• . . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

  Wole Soyinka

  Gun, Play, Voice

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• I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Writing, Kissing, Play

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• Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

  William Morris Hunt

  Writing, Sacrifice, Bird

  William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”

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• One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Eye, Player

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• After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.

  Jonathan Culler

  Art, Memories, Philosophical

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• Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Body, Systematic

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The criticism of Religion is the beginning of all criticism

  Karl Marx

  Criticism Of Religion

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• Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.

  Louis C. K.

  Feminist, Comedian, Enemy

  "Yes, I Did Say That!", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

  Clifford Geertz

  Research, Persuasive, Anthropology

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Phrases, Majesty

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

  Paul Scholes

  People, Compliment, Prove

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• A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Mistake, Self

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• Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

  Michael Hyatt

  Wise, Fool, Advantage

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• It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.

  Khem Veasna

  Punishment, People, Promise

  Facebook profile, December 25, 2013.

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• Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Soul, Abuse, Saving

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.20, Beacon Press

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• You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• ...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.

  Israel Zangwill

  Art, Philosophy, Humorous

  Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.551, Library of Alexandria

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• It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, People, Speech

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